Author, editor, and political activist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, writings, speeches, research material, political files, biographical material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Davenport's career as a writer and editor with
Fortune and
Life magazines, his involvement with the Republican Party, his work with the Institute for Creative Research, New York, N.Y., his writings including
The Dignity of Man (1955), his service in World War I and II, and his personal life.